Salute to past POKES who served

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ragtimejoe1
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Thank you to all who served! I know this is a day early, but I think fitting on the birthday for the Marines. A thread about our Veteran POKES.

I'll start with Johnny Winterholler. Wyoming native and UW All-American in baseball, basketball, and football. Could have went pro but joined the Marines. He was captured and suffered unimaginable torture. He dropped 50 lbs and became permanently paralyzed in captivity. He received the Silver Star and the Bronze Star with Valor and 26 other medals and awards. He reached the rank of colonel.

Upon his return home, he was an instrumental figure in developing wheelchair basketball and was ultimately inducted into UW Athletics Hall of Fame.

Remarkable POKE and remarkable story if you haven't read about it. Thank you Mr. Winterholler for your service; he passed in May of 2001 at the age of 85.

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Awesome story.
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Thank you for posting this and thanks to that man
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Thanks, lax.

Honestly, his story should be a movie. I can't imagine how tough those people were from that generation.
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Another good story, while not an alum, he is a Wyoming medal of honor recipient.

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regiona ... fd6be.html
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carbonpoke wrote: Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:51 pm Another good story, while not an alum, he is a Wyoming medal of honor recipient.

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regiona ... fd6be.html
Awesome!
WYO1016 wrote: Fri Dec 08, 2023 8:10 am I'm starting to think that Burman has been laying the pipe to ragtimejoe1's wife
Insults are the last resort of fools with a crumbling position.
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